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To issue in excessive quantity ; to issue iu excess of fixed legal limits. Thus, “overissued stock” of a private corporation is capital stock issued in excess of the amount limited and

In old practice. Hearing; the hearing a deed read, which a party sued on a bond, etc., might pray or demand, and it was then read to him by the other party;

Insanity is a manifestation of disease of the brain, characterized by a general or partial derangement of oue or more faculties of the mind, and in which, while consciousness is not abolished,

The person in favor of whom some obligation is contracted, whether such obligation be to pay money or to do or not to do something. Code La. art. 3522, no. 11. The

Lat. Withstand beginnings; resist the first approaches or encroachments. “It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizen, and against any stealthy encroachments thereon. Their

In a general sense. One who takes possession of a thing, of which there is no owner; one who has the actual possession or control of a thing. In a special sense.

Any action or step taken in the course of judicial proceedings which will be allowed by the court upon mere application, without any inquiry or contest, or which may be effectually taken

An oath whereby a person may be obliged to make any pre- sentment of any crime or offense, or to confess or accuse himself of any criminal matter or thing whereby he

He has done all. In pleading. A good plea In bar where all the covenants are in the affirmative. Bailey v. Rogers, 1 Me. 1S9. Omnia praesumuntur contra spoliato- rem. All things

A writ that lay for a joint tenant or tenant in common who was distrained for more rent than his proportion of the land comes to. Reg. Orig. 182.

Lat In the civil law. A protest or warning against [of] a new work. Dig. 39, 1.

A Saxon coin, valued at sixteen pence, and sometimes at twenty pence.

The directions as to the course and purpose of a voyage given by the owner of the vessel to the captain or master. For other meanings, see ORDER.

To establish or furnish with organs; to systematize; to put into working order; to arrange in order for the normal exercise of its appropriate functions. The word “organize,” as used in railroad

Lat. In the civil law. A monstrous or prodigious birth. Dig. 50, 16, 38.

At a time when no term of the court is beiug held; in the vacation or interval which elapses between terms of the court. See McNeill v. Hodges, 99 N. C. 248,

Injurious violence, or, in general, any species of serious wrong offered to the person, feelings, or rights of another. See McKinley v. Railroad Co., 44 Iowa, 314, 24 Am. Rep. 748; Aldrich

To survive; to live longer than another. Fiuch, Law, b. 1, c. 3, no. 58; 1 Leon. 1.

A half-French phrase applied in England to the assizes, which are so called from the commission of oyer and terminer directed to the judges, empowering them to “inquire, hear, and determine” all

OATH. An external pledge or assevera- lon, made in verification of statements made cr to be made, coupled with an appeal to a sucred or venerated object, in evidence of the serious